John Smyth victim calls for more bishops to resign over abuse cover-up
Man beaten until he bled as a child says Stephen Conway, Jo Bailey Wells and others must ‘look at their consciences’
One of John Smyth’s victims has called for more bishops to resign over the church’s cover-up of sadistic abuse, and has claimed the church is still failing to tackle safeguarding.
In the late 1970s and early 80s, the victim, who uses the pseudonym Graham, was made to strip naked in Smyth’s soundproof shed where he was beaten with a cane until he bled.
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